Digital BW, The Print

Roger Howard writes:

> But that would be the same argument against these other superior
> compressors too... so it's not really a factor.

It is for me, since it makes these newer compressors inaccessible to me.

> JPEG2000 is the best bet today, if you asked me as an archivist for
> something superior to JPEG. There was just an archival-oriented 
> JPEG2000 conference a few months back, in fact. It's pretty widely 
> supported - though not deeply supported (very few apps can really 
> exploit it's cool *new* features, but lots of apps can just use it like
> another flat image compressor).

I actually have a plug-in for JPEG2000 in Photoshop 5.0.2, but it has
never worked correctly.

Does JPEG2000 provide any type of scripting or executable code features
in the file format?

> There are free JPEG2000 converters to generate a
> TIFF, for instance, without having to upgrade Photoshop.

What about vice versa?  I could use a nice little converter that would
generate clean JPEG2000 files from a lossless format, such as, say,
TIFF.

> In fact, if you write code, it'd be an awfully short app to do it via
> Quicktime APIs (which support JPEG2000 since v6).

I've written code, but I don't really have much of a development
environment set up at the moment.